NYN Media interviews Wendy Fleischer who serves as the donor representative for the New York City Change Capital Fund, which is a collaborative of 15 funders who support community organizations and especially economic development corporations, working to increase economic mobility in the city’s lowest income neighborhoods. Hear the interview here: http://nynmedia.com/news/nyn-media-insights-podcast-on-change-capital-and-changing-leaders
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Delivering Coordinated, Community-Based Services by Putting Networks into Action
MDRC, the nation’s preeminent social policy research organization dedicated to learning what works to improve programs and policies that affect the poor, is evaluating the CCF initiative. This brief is the third in a series by MDRC. This brief describes how CCF grantees’ service coordination efforts have helped to place individuals without extensive work histories in higher-wage jobs, to […]
October Newsletter: Grantee’s Continue to Make Progress
Grantee’s Continue to Make Progress – Year 3 Unlike the usual business model where funding is fragmented and funding decisions are made without adequate focus on geographic targeting, CCF pools philanthropic support to provide flexible funding to enable strong organizations in high poverty neighborhoods innovate and integrate their programs and data. We think more flexible funding […]
106.7 Lite FM Get Connected with Nina Del Rio: Change Capital Fund
Good morning and thanks for joining us at Get Connected with the profile of the Change Capital Fund, a collaborative of 16 donors, both corporate and nonprofit, joining together to fund a small group of community-based organizations in an effort find better ways to improve the lives of low-income New Yorkers. One of the funds’ beneficiaries […]
September Newsletter: CCF, Grantee, and Donor News
CCF In The News “One out of five New Yorkers live in poverty. But poverty is not randomly distributed in every neighborhood. In neighborhoods of concentrated poverty-where poverty rates are upwards of 30 percent-nonprofit service providers work in a myriad of ways to help children and families in need with education, job training and placement, and […]
The Renewal Project: How a $5 million plan to tackle New York City’s most persistent poverty is paying off
With 16 donors from public and private sectors, Change Capital Fund looks to cross-sector solutions to inequality PATRICIA SWANN Sr. Program Officer for New York Community Trust One out of five New Yorkers live in poverty. But poverty is not randomly distributed in every neighborhood. In neighborhoods of concentrated poverty—where poverty rates are upwards […]
1010 WINS The Bottom Line For Small Business: Champion Network for Young and Unemployed Adults
Ever wonder who drives the paratransit vans that take your neighbor to the doctor or the food trucks that keep your grocery store shelves stocked? Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation is putting young men and women into those driver seats through the new CHAMPION Network Program. The program offers young unemployed adults a career in […]
August Newsletter: Technical Assistance Helps Grantees Measure and Improve Impact
Technical Assistance Helps Grantees Measure and Improve Impact In addition to the $1 million CCF provides each of its four grantees, the funding collaborative also provides technical assistance. Here, TA provider Celeste Frye, principal at Public Works Partners, discusses her work with grantees.[space_20] 1. How have you been working with Change Capital Fund over the […]
July Newsletter: Ensuring Success, No Matter What
Ensuring Success, No Matter What! Change Capital Fund (CCF) grantees are taking a long-term approach to serving individuals who come through their doors–and that includes helping people overcome all the barriers that stand between them and their future success. Traditionally, nonprofits have been tasked with providing one-time services based on immediate client needs, but that […]
Chronicle of Philanthropy: Using Data to Deliver Better Outcomes for Needy New Yorkers
News and analysis July 20, 2016 By Alex Daniels Residents of Cypress Hills have looked to Michelle Neugebauer for help for decades. Since she joined the Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation as its first full-time employee in 1984, she’s helped residents of the low-income Brooklyn neighborhood stave off eviction, look for jobs or internships, or […]